CULTIV-OER-E: an EUniWell project to make digital health education more accessible

A collaborative project on a European scale

Nantes Université, in coordination with Professor Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, is leading the CULTIV-OER-E project (Cultural and Linguistic Transformation Initiative for Virtual Open Educational Resources in EUniWell), which has recently been selected for funding by the EUniWell European university alliance. The project is built upon an academic partnership bringing together several European universities: Linnaeus University (Sweden), the University of Murcia (Spain), the Medical University of Warsaw (Poland), and Semmelweis University (Hungary). Together, these institutions share a common goal: to strengthen the accessibility and dissemination of knowledge in digital health.
 

Adapting educational resources to European diversity

CULTIV-OER-E aims to optimise access to high-quality open educational resources (OERs) in digital health. To this end, the project plans to adapt existing content in order to make it accessible across different linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical contexts. This approach will make it possible to offer multilingual and modular resources, tailored to the needs of students, educators, and healthcare professionals throughout Europe. It also responds to a growing challenge: the need for accessible teaching materials in rapidly evolving fields such as artificial intelligence in healthcare, health data management, and digital medicine.
 

A dynamic of sharing and co-construction in support of open and inclusive education

At the heart of the project, collaboration between European partners will enable the pooling of expertise and the promotion of knowledge sharing. The universities involved will thus be able to reuse and adapt existing teaching content, contributing to a more open and inclusive approach to higher education. CULTIV-OER-E illustrates Nantes Université's commitment to open education and the dissemination of knowledge, in service of major contemporary challenges such as health and digital technology.
 

Concrete actions over 12 months

Over a one-year period, the project plans several key activities:

• The identification and adaptation of reference teaching resources in digital health;
• The organisation of collaborative production workshops;
• The creation of a guide of best practices for the multilingual and intercultural transformation of OERs.

The results will be disseminated via EUniWell's platforms as well as through open educational resource repositories such as the NÉO platform, in order to maximise their visibility, accessibility, and impact.